parse.js

/********************************** example **************************************/

var base_url = 'http://people.cs.uct.ac.za/~swatermeyer/VulaMobi/';

function example()
{
    var response = "";
    var form_data = {
        username: username,
        password: password
    };
    $.ajax({
        type: "POST", 
        url: base_url + "ajax.php?test/json", 
        data: form_data,
        success: function(response)
        {
            /*response = '[{"Language":"jQuery","ID":"1"},{"Language":"C#","ID":"2"},
                           {"Language":"PHP","ID":"3"},{"Language":"Java","ID":"4"},
                           {"Language":"Python","ID":"5"},{"Language":"Perl","ID":"6"},
                           {"Language":"C++","ID":"7"},{"Language":"ASP","ID":"8"},
                           {"Language":"Ruby","ID":"9"}]'*/
            console.log(response);
            
	    var json_obj = $.parseJSON(response);//parse JSON
            
            var output="<ul>";
            for (var i in json_obj) 
            {
                output+="<li>" + json_obj[i].Language + ",  " + json_obj[i].ID + "</li>";
            }
            output+="</ul>";
            
            $('span').html(output);
        },
        dataType: "json"//set to JSON    
    })    
}